The Penn's Grove record., 1887-09-10

William Kinney and John SlaJteTly,
coal shovelers in Cincinnati, quarrelled
about ten cents on the evening Of the
Sd. Kinney drew a knife and cut Stat
terley's throat, causing death in Il few
minutes. W. z. Coffman, Rich AID
Walker, Charles Weber and Albert
Mcmahon, four white men, employed
in a stove factory nea Brunswick
Tennessee, on the 3lst ut, shot and
killed a eolOred man named James
Eastman. CATER Kidding his body
with bullets, they tied a rope around
his neck, and threw him into the Hatch
river. Eastman had a fight with Golf
man. when was his only defence. -
Coffman was arrested, but the Others
escaped. An attempt was made to
wreck a train on the Illinois Central
Railroad neal Chatsworth, Illinois, on
The evening CT the I'd. by placing "a tie
across the track in a cut and on a
curve. The obstruction was noticed
in time.
1t is now said that 10 bodies have
been taken from the wreck OF the rail-
road train at Chatsworth, Illinois, and
it is believed that several others were
consumed in the wreck.
The house Of Perry Buchanan, at
Woolwich, Texas, was burned on the
I'd, and a five-year-old girl perished IN
the flames. Another. three years old,
was fatally burned, and one about ten,
who rushed into the house to save her
sustained dangerous injuries. Mrs.
Buchanan was seriously burned on the
arms. While Mrs. John Martin, living
on an upper floor in Cincinnati, was
preparing supper by a coal oil stove, on
the evening of the I'd, her ~two-year-old
daughter upset the stove and had her
clothing set on fire. The mother ran
down stairs with the child III her arms,
and, meeting her husband, he smoth-
cred the flames by throwing his coat
around the child. The latler died In
two hours and Mrs. Martins burns
we're considered fatal.
Robert b. Morris, white, was killed
in Washington, on the evening of tie Sd,
by Beverly Jones, colored, who jabbed
him in the eye with the end of an UNI
brella. They had quarrelled because
Jones stole a bottle of whiskey from
Morris and drank part of it.
"A despatch from Westport, Con-
necticut, says that, as a gravel train
was crossing the New Haven Railroad
drawbridge, on the afternoon of the
1st, George II. Nordaby, a brakeman,
saw a woman and two men struggling
IN the water. Their boat had been
struck by a squall and capsized, and the
two men were uGable to save the
woman. Nordaby plunged into the
water below, a distance Of forty-hye
feet, and rose to the surface within
three feet of the drowning 0ma and
bore her to the shore. Eleazer Page,
II years old, was drowned while boat
ing atlQuebec, cp-tha ID. a younger
brother of EiSdzer, who had been alling
for some time, died shortly after the
latter left the house. The mother,
while suffering from the loss OF the
younger brother, was informed Of the
accident. ~Shefalnted and it is thought
that she will die.
On the evening of The Sd, 225
pounds of dualin exploded in the viii
bur mine, at Kingston, Ontario, doing
great damage and seriously injuring a
workman named Dunn. All thu man
had left tie mine only five minutes be-
fore.
On the evening of the ID a coal
train on the Leavenworth branch OF
the Union Pacific Railroad was thrown
from the track by an open switch.
Some mules from Lawrence, Kansas,
Engineer }. Munden, Fireman Frank
Davis and Brakeman Thomas Brown
we're killed.
"A car was thrown from the track
on the Erie Railway, about i've miles
from Avon, on the 4th, by the breaking
of a wheel. 1t contained six men and
several trottng horses. The men were
all badly bruised, and Thomas Whit
son, a noted groom, was killed. The
horse, Henry H." valued at $1,000,
was fatally injured, ''St Jacob" and
'Lida K" badly injured. The horses
were on the way from Hornellsville to
Rochester.
Great excitement has been caused
at Geneva and Batavia, Illinois, by the
depredations of a panther. supposed to
have escaped from some menagerie.
Thus far it has killed about a dozen
dogs and two COWS. and has exhumed
several bodies from a cemetery. Hunt
ing PARTIES are after 1t.
When the safe of the Treasurer of
Darke county, Ohio, at Greenville, was
opened on the morning of the 9TH the
sum OF $45, 900 was missing. The
Treasurer was John S. Simon. Captain
Godsuch, the night Waterman at the
treasury, says the safe was all right
during the night of the Sd. On the
morning Of the 4th, while asleep at
home, she received a note from Mr..
Simon, carried by the son of Treasury
Clerk sullivan, ordering him to give the
key to the door leading to the treasury
room from the hall to the boy, and he
did SO. Coming to the treasury about z
O'Clock in the evening he found the
hall door open, and, entering the room,
discovered the vault door open, and,
closing it, he remained In the room ali
night without giving any alarm" ST.
mon was in the treasury on the 4th,
and, II is asserted, set the time-lock.
He alone knew the combination of the
inner safe doors. The combination was
not injured. Simon's son, Harry, was
the first person in the treasury on the
morning of the 9TH, and the first to give
The alarm. Simon's shoe store, con-
aiming a large stock. has been closed
~ the sheriff. He aud his son, Harry,
we're arrested later in the day and held
u $1,000 ard $4,000 bail respectively
10 answer at Court, the former a charge
of embezzling $4,000, the latter Il
charge of grand larceny to the amount
OF $4,000. A new treasurer, Henry
Bickel, took charge of the office on the
9TH.
"A boat containing seven young
men was upset in IT, 4iyer at Saco,
Maine, ON the afternoon of the 4th, and
Albert Carter, aged 10, and Charles
Michel, aged II, We're drowned.
"A freight train and a gravel train
on the Reading Railroad eollided, on
the 9th, IN WnYamsport. Both engines
and a numbersgf cars We're wrecked,
and Michael 1oyoe, brakeman was
600. 1t is said the !" Conductor Of the
gravel train disabeyed orders. A train